Review on Christmas Train Set For Under The Tree With Lights, And Sounds - Holiday Train Around Christmas Tree W/Large Tracks Electric Train Set With 160 Inches Of Track And 2 Xmas Elves - Gold by Bill Maki

A couple of days ago, my father was attempting to set up our old Christmas train set around the tree. Much to our dismay, the locomotive on the train was no longer working. I decided to surprise my dear old dad by ordering this train as a replacement. That was a mistake. This thing is the flimsiest, cheapest, saddest little excuse for a train set that I could possibly imagine. First I tried setting it up around the tree, but the little plastic track wouldn't stay snapped together. It is made of the absolute flimsiest little plastic you can imagine and getting the track to stay together was a real challenge. Eventually I got the track assembled and put the train on there. The train started out going way too fast, careening around the first corner and flying off the track behind the tree. I went to retrieve it and part of the track got snagged on it and of course the track came apart. Things went from bad to worse from there, as I noticed the "steam" (smoke) coming out of the locomotive and inadvertently whiffed some of it up my nose. It smelled toxic and it probably gave me Legionnaire's Disease. I discovered that if you put the track together on a surface that is absolutely flat, and I mean absolutely dead-level flat, then the train will actually make it around the track without falling over. This is how I had it set up when my dad got home, and I apologized to him in advance before turning it on so we could watch it go around on the floor (not around the tree). We all stared at it for a few minutes like a pack of prize jackasses and then noticed it was starting to slow down. Now this train had not been running for more than five minutes at most and the batteries were already starting to drain. The disappointment was palpable as I put the pieces back into the box. Sorry dad, maybe next year.